Breaking Bad star enters NM politics

ALBUQUERQUE (KRQE) - An Albuquerque actor in the hit TV show Breaking Bad will soon have a new role as a school board member.
    
While the news may be surprising to some, Steven Michael Quezada says he's already spent a lot of his life helping local kids.

“I went to Lavaland, I went John Adams, I went to West Mesa…I’ve lived in that area,” Quezada said. “I’m just a regular guy…yeah I’m on a TV show.”
  
A TV show a lot of people watch.     
  
Quezada plays DEA agent Steven Gomez on Breaking Bad.
    
As the last season of the show wraps up, Quezada wants to go from the set to an APS school board seat.

“I’ve been doing this since the 80's…everyone acts like I’m new at this,” Quezada said.
    
Quezada says he has spent decades helping out kids through programs at YDI.

“A lot of kids fall through the cracks because they're not good at history. They're not good at math, or they're not good at English,” Quezada said. “So, we lose those kids because there's no interest to go to school anymore.”
    
He says arts in schools can change that.

“We’ve got to look at the successful charter schools and say why are they successful, what's happening in those schools,” Quezada said.
    
Quezada has three kids enrolled at the Public for Performing Arts Charter School, where he also sat on the board.
    
He says APS and some parents could use some improvements:

“It only takes five minutes to go to each one of your kids and say did you do your homework?” Quezada said.
    
Quezada says he wants to be on the board to impact young lives:

“I’m one of those kids that fell through the cracks,” Quezada said. “I think that I can talk for them.”
 
Quezada is running unopposed for the newly created District 5, which covers part of Albuquerque's Westside.